...taken off and the guns and caissons drawn by hand.
By daylight of the 30th the battery was ferried over the Big Black, and the men moved on towards Grand Gulf without stopping to feed the horses.
Bayou Pierre was reached at sundown.
The order to move into line of battle came at once.
There was no time for food.
The line was reached at 10 o'clock --the road between Bruinsburg and Port Gibson, four mi...